Mohave County miner., 1887-05-28

An olive-complexioned son OF Italy, his
hat, clothing, and particularly his shoes, evil
dencing long service and hard usage. frug.
gied up the two flights Of steep stairs that led
to the factory Of one Of the most prominent
manufacturers Of street organs in this city
the other day, and shifting from his neck the
greasy leathern strap that supported an organ
on ms back, he placed the Instrument Oh the
floor with evident relief. Taking his hat of,
he gave nod Of recognition 10 the proprietor
Of +i;e establishment and proceeded to mop
the great beads Of pergpiration from his low
forehead with very dirty and ragged silk
handkerchief that might In its PALMER days
have bean orange coIored. This operation
finished he said, pointing TO the rusty looking
box before him with sn expression Of the
most absolute disgust and with voice full Of
feeling:
"Eo good!'
>"What Is the matter with itf1 asked the
proprietor Of she place.
dc instrument no play good tune. No
mako money. 1t IL too a zad, too zlow.
Pull a out 10 old tune. Make q play quick
mUZlca Put In Zat new tune, Pop Goes ze
Weasel"
Having been assured that the instrument
would lie enlivencd forthwith, and that he
might call for II in a few days, the Italian
gave parting look at the picture Of Genoa
In the front panel and shambIed Off When
be had disappeared reporter who happened
TO be present during the above dialogue said
- .he fat, joyiaI-Iooking organ maker and re-
pairer, whose countenance bore an amused
smile:
HARD QUESTION TO ANSWER
What Is the latest agony in hand organ
music, Or, in other words, what arc to be the
tunes that will set all New York crazy thi,
fall
THAT Is a pretty hard question to answer"
he replied, "as 1t depends very largely upon
the taste and fancy Of the respective musi-
clans. Some Of them know what they want
and some don't. But rs most Of them leave
t TO me TO make the selections for them, why
OF course, have 10 keep upwith all the latest
'nuN.c, and put in such tunes az / think will
r. most popular. That man who Just went
out Of here Is a fair illustration of how ignor.
art some OF these men are. His organ was
to- sentimental for his gay nature, and he
wanted Il lively air or two 10 substitute for
Odd Hundred or The Heart Bowed Down ,
Now, some one has told him that Pop Goes
the Weasel is the right thing. OF course that
Is played out long ago, and / shall have to
give him something Of the same nature that
Is not quite so ancient"
"Do they come in often to have new tunes
/ substitutedf
"oh, yes; about every six months, some
times oftener. You see il costs about 81 or
s. to get new tune put In. They generally
have two done at once An ordinary street
organ plays six or eight airs, and they keep
changing them until they get what they like,
and then very likely they will run along on
the same bnsT~i for quito while. Some nf
the latest songs that will probably run this
winter are Rocking the Baby White
Wings and the Cricket on the Hearth
Then there Is the Lullaby and When Love
IS Young from that new comic opera 'Er.
mimic We get great many songs that are
popular from England. Sweet Dreamland
Faces Going TO Market Tit for Tat have
taken very well and will, no doubt, run for
some time yet. HaIrisan hasn't got out any
thing new as yet, but we will probably hear
from him soon. In tho meantime Baxter
Avenue Denny Grady's Hack, II Showered
Again. and Put on Your Bridal veir will
still remain on the barrels Scanians new
songs, expect, will take well, and / will
probably put his Rose Song and Gather the
Myrtle with Mary into some Of these organs
You see here. The 'Mikado' Is beginning TO
get played gut, and will have to take rest.
We will run the Gipsy Baron and Little
Tycoon for some time yet.
THE RUN OF NEW TUNES
"Do old tunes reyiver
~Yes, indeed. We generally give the new
tunes a run for about year, and then hang
them up for while. II they are very popu-
lar they are sure to be wanted again.
rs the hand organ business On the declinefo
"No, sir. There are more street organs
about to-day than ever before, although you
may no: notice so many-the city has grown
50 large. The business Is too good not to
have plenty Of recruits. A good player can
always make money at it. He knows that, il
he goes into a fashionable neighborhood, he
will be regarded as public nuisance and he
paid to move on, while in the tenement dis
tIicts he is welcome and gets all the spare
pennies about TO remain. 10, you see, In
both cases he makes money
There are several establishments In New
York and vicinity that supply hand organs to
the itinerant grinder, and whether they are
indictable or not as public nuisances Is ques-
ton which the suffering public has refrainea
from testing Most Of tie followers of this
profession own their organs, but many OF
tuttU EeDb tHeIi. n stFest organ IL worth
from $50 TO $3.50, and weighs from twenty to
seventy pounds. The average weight, how
ever, is about thirty pounds. They will last,
IL properly made and handled, in the neigh.
borhood Of twenty years, and can be repaired
50 often in the meantime that very little OF
the original instrument viii reIcain In ths
end There is the greatest difference between
players, and IL does not follow that two men
mill NstsE h.
amount of money. a poor player win col
lect barely sixty or seventy cents for days
work, while a good, bright performer, with
plenty of expression. viii gather In "a or s5
bct:Teen sunrise and sunset. The business
yields on an average a.. 50 or s3 day.-New
York Star.
Education Of the CoEyicts.
Warden Brush Of Sing Sing prison tells
me that the evening schools for the education
Of tie convicts, which he started three years